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Jun.13.2013
Please join me for an exciting event. Thanks to Chatterworks and the Daily Basics, I'm going to first be doing a live tweet chat at 8 PM est on June 18th. Three copies of my new novel IS THIS TOMORROW will be given away! Afterwards, several people will be chosen to live video chat with me on...
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Jun.10.2013
Jane Ciabattari is one of the shining names in literature. Really. Not only is she a stellar writer, but she is also the Vice President/Online of the National Book Critics Circle, in charge of the Critical Mass Blog and her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review,...
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May.29.2013
Every once in a while you meet someone and there is that instant spark of connection. It feels like you've known each other since you were kids, that you went to the same grade school, the same high school, that you shopped together and talked about boys, and even had your babies at the same...
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May.21.2013
I first met Henriette Lazaridis Power at a reading and got to know her when a bunch of us all headed out into Boston for food and wine, and I was lucky enough to sit next to her. Spectacularly talented, her amazing debut, The Clover House, is about identity, longing and the cultural bonds we...
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May.20.2013
Want advice, cheer, support, championing and staunch friendship? Beth Hoffman willingly dispenses all that and more, with ultimate grace and warmth, plus she's a stupendously talented writer. Twelve days after her first novel was published in January 2010, she became a New York...
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May.03.2013
I love Apple! Ibooks is featuring sneak peaks of "eagerly awaited novels" including Is This Tomorrow
We're an all Apple household. My husband and two Macs and an Ipad and an Iphone, I have an Iphone and two Macs, and my son has two Macs. And now the amazing people at Apple have created a sneak peak of "eagerly anticipated books" so you can read four chapters as a preview! I am so jazzed! Here...
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Apr.23.2013
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this interview. I think I first met A. S. King at a Backspace conference and we just hit it off. I'm rabid about her work, too, and every time I run into her, the world just seems brighter. In fact, a month ago, I was in the ladies room at the...
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Apr.19.2013
Facing the “You’re a Failure” Voice
Caroline Leavitt on dealing with fear
Someone recently asked me in an interview, “How do you obliterate that voice inside of you that tells you you’re a failure as a writer?”
I laughed when I heard the question because most of the writers I...
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Apr.19.2013
New lives for old books! Thrilled that Dzanc rEprint series is reprinting my backlist!
Dzanc Books rEprint is an innovative new publishing venture by the genius Dan Wickett, dedicated to publishing great works of contemporary literature in e-book formats. I'm honored to be chosen as one...
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Apr.19.2013
Sneak listen of Is This Tomorrow audiobook!From the amazing Xe Sands, who did the audiobook:
Finally time to start sharing "sneak listens" of some recent favorite projects that will be releasing rapid-fire, starting with this marvelous book from Caroline Leavitt, IS THIS TOMORROW (...
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Mar.05.2013
Get ready, because the atoms, protons and electrons are about to go zooming around in high gear--something that always happens when David Henry Sterry and Arielle Eckstut are about. I think I first met them when they were writing The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, a hilarious...
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Feb.25.2013
The sublime Julianna Baggott talks about Fuse, trilogies, dreaming about storyworld and so much more
Julianna Baggott is flat-out wonderful. Funny, smart, generous and warm, she's also one of the most creative and adventurous writers I know. She's published an astonishing 19 books in a dozen years. Pure, the first book in her trilogy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an ALA...
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Feb.17.2013
I first met Sara J. Henry at the Brattleboro Book Fest and we went out for lunch and promptly bonded. Her novel, Learning to Swim, won the 2012 Anthony Award and 2012 Agatha Award for best first novel and the 2012 Mary Higgins Clark Award, was an Emerging Author pick at Target, and was...
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Feb.10.2013
The New York Times' Modern Love is the Holy Grail for writers. I tried six times to get in and every time was politely rebuffed. My pieces took place too far in the past. The tone wasn't right. The subject matter wasn't quirky enough. I just gave up, assuming they hated me, but then a month ago, I...
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Feb.03.2013
You know the friend you can sit across a table from in a cafe for lunch, and the next thing you know it's dinner time and you've been laughing so hard that you haven't even touched your chocolate croissant? That's what being with Meredith Maran is like. I love Meredith. You've never met anyone...
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About Caroline
Caroline Leavitt's 9th novel, Pictures of You, was published by Algonquin Books in 2011 and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of eight other novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air,...
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